BASIC TAGS OF HTML

Let us now look at tags in more detail. A <TAG> tells the browser to do something. An ATTRIBUTE goes inside the <TAG> and tells the browser how to do it. A tag can have several attributes. Tags can also have default attributes. The default value is a value that the browser assumes if you have not told it otherwise. A good example is the...

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INTRODUCTION TO HTML

You would by now have been introduced to the Internet and the World Wide Web (often just called the Web) and how it has changed our lives. Today we have access to a wide variety of information through Web sites on the Internet. We can access a Web site if we have a connection to the Internet and a browser on our computer. Popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera. When you connect to a Web site, your browser is presented with a file in a special format by the Web server on the remote computer. The contents...

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INTERNET TOOLS

In this article, we will look at two software tools available on the Internet. Search Engines Search Engines are programs that search the web. Web is a big graph with the pages being the nodes and hyperlinks being the arcs. Search engines collect all the hyperlinks on each page they read, remove all the ones that have already been processed and save the rest. The Web is then searched breadth-first, i.e. each link on page is followed and all the hyperlinks on all the pages pointed to are collected but they are not traced in the order obtained. Automated...

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PROTOCOLS AND SERVICES ON INTERNET

To work with Internet and to utilize its facilities we use certain tools. For example,Telnet is a tool, which is utilized for logging on remote computers on the Internet. Let us briefly discuss about some of the important tools and services. Domain Name System Domain name is a name given to a network for ease of reference. Domain refers to a group of computers that are known by a single common name. Somebody has to transfer these domain names into IP addresses. It is decided on the physical location of the web server as well as where the domain...

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